Storm Damage Features

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event_id |
Damage Indicator | Large, Isolated Retail Building [K-Mart, Wal-Mart] (LIRB)
Degree of Damage | Uplift and removal of roof structure
EF Rating | EF2
damage_dir | N/A
Estimated Windspeed (MPH) | 116
injuries | 0.0
deaths | 0.0
comments | none
lat | 37.0276
office | PAH
image | null
qc | Y
surveytype | None

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event_id |
Damage Indicator | Free-Standing Light Poles, Luminary Poles, Flag Poles (FSP)
Degree of Damage | Collapsed pole
EF Rating | EF2
damage_dir | N/A
Estimated Windspeed (MPH) | 115
injuries | 0.0
deaths | 0.0
comments | none
lat | 37.0253
office | PAH
image | null
qc | Y
surveytype | None

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event_id |
Damage Indicator | Small Professional Building [Doctor's Office, Branch Banks] (SPB)
Degree of Damage | Uplift or collapse of entire roof structure
EF Rating | EF2
damage_dir | NE/45
Estimated Windspeed (MPH) | 124
injuries | 0.0
deaths | 0.0
comments | none
lat | 37.0226
office | PAH
image | null
qc | Y
surveytype | None

Damage Indicator | Masonry Apartment or Motel Building (MAM)
Degree of Damage | Collapse of top story walls
damage_dir | ENE/60

Damage Indicator | Small Barns or Farm Outbuildings (SBO)
Degree of Damage | Uplift or collapse of roof structure
damage_dir | WNW/300

Damage Indicator | Trees: Softwood (TS)
Degree of Damage | Trunks snapped
damage_dir | N/0

Damage Indicator | Masonry Apartment or Motel Building (MAM)
Degree of Damage | Collapse of top story walls
damage_dir | N/0

Damage Indicator | Small Professional Building [Doctor's Office, Branch Banks] (SPB)
Degree of Damage | Uplift or collapse of entire roof structure
damage_dir | N/A

Damage Indicator | Other (O)
Degree of Damage | Other damage

Damage Indicator | Trees: Hardwood (TH)
Degree of Damage | Trees uprooted
damage_dir | NNW/330

Damage Indicator | Other (O)
Degree of Damage | Other damage
comments | at least 4 cars impaled by debris with windows broken out

Damage Indicator | Motel (M)
Degree of Damage | Threshold of visible damage
damage_dir | NE/45
comments | 100 yard wide path of minor roof/shingle damage to several businesses and a hotel. A small pine tree was uprooted.

Damage Indicator | Small Barns or Farm Outbuildings (SBO)
Degree of Damage | Loss of wood or metal roof panels
damage_dir | NE/45
comments | Several sheets of a metal roof were peeled back off of a metal storage building.

Damage Indicator | Manufactured Home - Double Wide (MHDW)
Degree of Damage | Unit rolls, displaces or vaults
damage_dir | N/0

Damage Indicator | Manufactured Home - Double Wide (MHDW)
Degree of Damage | Unit rolls, displaces or vaults

Damage Indicator | Trees: Hardwood (TH)
Degree of Damage | Large branches broken (1-3 inch diameter)

Damage Indicator | Small Barns or Farm Outbuildings (SBO)
Degree of Damage | Total destruction of building
lon | -88.777

Damage Indicator | Other (O)
Degree of Damage | Other damage
comments | 4 vans or busses with major damage and blown out windows. Carport blown 200 yards SE.

Degree of Damage | Major loss of roof panels
lon | -88.781

Degree of Damage | Major loss of roof panels

Damage Indicator | Free-Standing Light Poles, Luminary Poles, Flag Poles (FSP)
Degree of Damage | Threshold of visible damage

Damage Indicator | Free-Standing Light Poles, Luminary Poles, Flag Poles (FSP)
Degree of Damage | Threshold of visible damage
comments | A semi truck was lifted while traveling on I24 and was blown into the median in jackknife position. Around 70 yards of cyclone fencing was torn down. A sign was blown out and minor damage was seen at the Toyota building.

Damage Indicator | Trees: Hardwood (TH)
Degree of Damage | Trunks snapped

Degree of Damage | Collapse of walls

Damage Indicator | Strip Mall (SM)
Degree of Damage | Broken windows or glass doors
comments | Facia damage to roof and glass windows and glass doors blown out of 2 vacant shops in a strip mall. Damage path approximately 100 yards wide.

Damage Indicator | Large Shopping Mall (LSM)
Degree of Damage | Loss of roof covering (<20%)
comments | a couple of street signs were snapped at the ground. The Dicks Sporting Goods sign was damaged. Minor facia/roof damage seen at Dillard s and parts of the roof were stripped away at the food court. Several vehicles had blown out windows in the mall parking lot.

Damage Indicator | One- or Two-Family Residences (FR12)
Degree of Damage | Exterior walls collapsed

Degree of Damage | Trees uprooted

Degree of Damage | Trunks snapped
lon | -88.836

Degree of Damage | Total destruction of building

Damage Indicator | One- or Two-Family Residences (FR12)
Degree of Damage | Uplift of roof deck and loss of significant roof covering material (>20%); collapse of chimney; garage doors collapse inward; failure of porch or carport

comments | Five Star sign was blown out.

Damage Indicator | One- or Two-Family Residences (FR12)
Degree of Damage | Broken glass in doors and windows

Degree of Damage | Uplift of roof deck and loss of significant roof covering material (>20%); collapse of chimney; garage doors collapse inward; failure of porch or carport

Degree of Damage | Overturning or sliding of entire structure

Damage Indicator | Small Professional Building [Doctor's Office, Branch Banks] (SPB)
comments | Siding torn off of a business

Degree of Damage | Large branches broken (1-3 inch diameter)
damage_dir | NNE/30

Degree of Damage | Small limbs broken (up to 1 inch diameter)
damage_dir | NNE/30
comments | several small branches broken along Steven Dr.

damage_dir | NNE/30
comments | Shingles blown off of the roof of a single family residence.

comments | A large hardwood tree was snapped approximately 20 feet up off the ground. Several other large branches snapped from nearby trees.

Damage Indicator | Small Retail Building [Fast Food Restaurants] (SRB)
Degree of Damage | Uplift of roof decking; significant loss of roof covering (>20%)
comments | Damage path approximately 75 yards wide. Several large trees snapped or uprooted. Metal roofing stripped off business building and carried approximately 150 yards downstream. Witness saw roof being blown off and tornado. Two windows were broken in nearby buildings/residences

comments | Damage path approximately 75 yards wide. Several large trees snapped or uprooted. Metal roofing stripped off business building and carried approximately 150 yards downstream. Witness saw roof being blown off and tornado. Two windows were broken in nearby buildings/residences.

Degree of Damage | Uplift of roof deck and loss of significant roof covering material (>20%); collapse of chimney; garage doors collapse inward; failure of porch or carport
damage_dir | ENE/60
comments | Damage path approximately 75 yards wide. Several large trees snapped or uprooted. Metal roofing stripped off business building and carried approximately 150 yards downstream. Witness saw roof being blown off and tornado. Two windows were broken in nearby buildings/residences

Degree of Damage | Large branches broken (1-3 inch diameter)

Degree of Damage | Loss of wood or metal roof panels

damage_dir | ENE/60
comments | Several hardwood trees snapped or uprooted.

Degree of Damage | Uplift or collapse of roof structure

Damage Indicator | Manufactured Home - Single Wide (MHSW)
Degree of Damage | Loss of shingles or partial uplift of one-piece metal roof covering

Degree of Damage | Total destruction of building
comments | Estimated 40 x 40 farm storage building completely destroyed. A pontoon boat was carried approximately 120 yards from original location inside of storage building.

Damage Indicator | Trees: Softwood (TS)
damage_dir | W/270

Degree of Damage | Trees debarked with only stubs of largest branches remaining

Degree of Damage | Broken glass in doors and windows

comments | Path width approximately 150 yards wide. The northern facing portion of the roof was blown out of a single family home. Several windows were blown out on the south side of the house. 75% of the bricks on the east wall of the house were blown off. A large tree was uprooted in the front yard resulted in a cracked sidewalk.

Degree of Damage | Large sections of roof structure removed; most walls remain standing
comments | Roof completely blown off of the single family residence. A garage behind the home was flipped and completely destroyed. All windows of the home were blown out.

Degree of Damage | Large sections of roof structure removed; most walls remain standing

Degree of Damage | Loss of roof covering material (<20%), gutters and/or awning; loss of vinyl or metal siding

Degree of Damage | Collapsed pole

Damage Indicator | Large, Isolated Retail Building [K-Mart, Wal-Mart] (LIRB)
Degree of Damage | Inward or outward collapse of exterior walls

Damage Indicator | Large, Isolated Retail Building [K-Mart, Wal-Mart] (LIRB)
Degree of Damage | Long roof spans collapsed downward

Degree of Damage | Exterior walls collapsed
comments | Northeast facing wall was blown out of a single family residence. Most windows in the house were broken. Several large trees were either uprooted or snapped. Several sheets of metal roofing were lofted into the trees. Uplift of the front porch caused a cinder block in the porch base to crack.

comments | Several hardwood trees uprooted and snapped. Vinyl fencing blown over. Parts of a metal roof seen lofted in trees.

Degree of Damage | Small limbs broken (up to 1 inch diameter)
comments | None

event_id | Cunningham Tornado
length | 16.7
width | 300.0
injuries | 1
fatalities | 0
comments | The tornado quickly intensified and widened, reaching 300 yards wide on Blandville Road, west of Lovelaceville. The tornado further intensified, reaching its maximum intensity of EF2, intermittently from north of Lovelaceville on Hamburg Road to just southeast of the Barkley Regional Airport on Highway 1565 (Mayfield-Metropolis Road). At least a dozen homes sustained major structural damage, including at least partial loss of roofs, or walls blown outward and windows blown out.

startlat | 36.9237
length | 16.7
width | 300.0
injuries | 1
fatalities | 0
efnum | 2
maxwind | 125
cropdamage | -99.0
propdamage | 10000.0
comments | The tornado quickly intensified and widened, reaching 300 yards wide on Blandville Road, west of Lovelaceville. The tornado further intensified, reaching its maximum intensity of EF2, intermittently from north of Lovelaceville on Hamburg Road to just southeast of the Barkley Regional Airport on Highway 1565 (Mayfield-Metropolis Road). At least a dozen homes sustained major structural damage, including at least partial loss of roofs, or walls blown outward and windows blown out. Four cows were killed near Lovelaceville on Hamburg Road. Dozens of barns, outbuildings, garages, or grain bins were destroyed. Dozens of homes sustained minor damage, including the loss of shingles and metal fascia. A church and at least one business sustained major damage. Mt. Zion Baptist Church had much of the roof structure of the sanctuary blown off, as well as part of a second story exterior wall. One business sustained major damage with the backside of the building blown inward. Several other businesses had minor damage. The Kentucky Oaks Mall sustained damage to its roof and metal fascia and an adjacent strip mall received similar damage, as well windows blown out. Dozens of power poles were blown down causing extensive power outages along much of the tornado track. Hundreds of trees were uprooted, snapped, or sustained broken branches. The only reported injury occurred when a grain bin was blown on top of a pickup truck traveling eastbound on Highway 62. The tornado`s maximum intensity occurred along Blandville Road and Fisher Road, where at least ten vehicles sustained damage. Several other vehicles had windows blown out at the Kentucky Oaks Mall area.